Rosanne Cash

“My idea of heaven is a great big library.”

“The key to change is to let go of fear.”

“Art is the one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.”

“A legacy is not what you leave for people, but what you leave in them.”

“You have to be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”

“The more you understand your own history, the more liberated you are.”

“The truth is, you can't really earn your own self-respect. You have to create it.”

“You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be.”

“For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes.”

“Being a songwriter is a solitary, self-indulgent, and lonely profession.”

“The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.”

“I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' All he said was, 'I've seen so many people fail at this. I've seen so many people I love fail at this. You have to be willing to fail, too.'”

“I feel that art has the ability to heal and to bring people together.”

“The south is a strange place, one that can't be fit inside a movie, a song or a book.”